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Writing Abroad A Guide for Travelers

Chilson Peter, Mulcahy Joanne B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226444499, ISBN: HB: 9780226444352, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Tell me all about your trip!" It's a request that follows travelers as they head out into the world, and one of the first things they hear when they return. When we leave our homes to explore the wider world, we feel compelled to capture the experie...

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Backpack Ambassadors How Youth Travel Integrated Europe

Jobs Richard Ivan

ISBN: PB: 9780226462035, ISBN: HB: 9780226438979, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 32 halftones, 1 line drawing

Even today, in an era of cheap travel and constant connection, the image of young people backpacking across Europe remains seductively romantic. In "Backpack Ambassadors", Richard Ivan Jobs tells the story of backpacking in Europe in its heyday, the...

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Medieval Invention of Travel

Legassie Shayne Aaron

ISBN: PB: 9780226446622, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

Over the course of the Middle Ages, the economies of Europe, Asia, and northern Africa became more closely integrated, fostering the international and intercontinental journeys of merchants, pilgrims, diplomats, missionaries, and adventurers. During...

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Children's Books

Alaska on the Go Exploring the Alaska Marine Highway System with Children

Kirkland Erin

ISBN: PB: 9781602233157, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2017
300 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 4 maps

Every year, nearly two million tourists visit Alaska, and at least half of them spend time exploring the state's waterways. For families that want to do so in a more independent fashion than a cruise ship or guided tour would allow, Erin Kirkland has...

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Prague A City and Its River

Beckova Katerina

ISBN: PB: 9788024632926, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2017
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 100 colour plates, 25 halftones, 2 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Since its birth as a city, Prague's appearance, character, and life have been shaped by the River Vltava. The flow of the river enabled the settlement of the Prague basin, the creation of...

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Rising Ground A Search for the Spirit of Place

Marsden Philip

ISBN: HB: 9780226366098, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
352 pp., 21.6x14.6 cm, 21 halftones

In 2010, Philip Marsden, whom Giles Foden has called "one of our most thoughtful travel writers", moved with his family to a rundown farmhouse in the countryside in Cornwall. From the moment he arrived, Marsden found himself fascinated by the landsca...

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Dolce far niente in Arabia Georg August Wallin and His Travels in the 1840s

Berg Patricia, Haggman Sofia, Ohrnberg Kaj, Hameen-Anttila Jaakko, Palva Heikki

ISBN: PB: 9788763543040, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, November 2015
144 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 14 colour plates, 1 halftone, 7 maps

In the 1840s the Finnish orientalist Georg August Wallin traveled in the Middle East, where he collected material on Arabic dialects. Considered an eminent scholar by his contemporaries, he died an untimely death shortly after his seven-year journey...

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Literary Criticism

Dead Ladies Project Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries

Crispin Jessa

ISBN: PB: 9780226278452, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
248 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

When Jessa Crispin was thirty, she burned her settled Chicago life to the ground and took off for Berlin with a pair of suitcases and no plan beyond leaving. Half a decade later, she's still on the road, in search not so much of a home as of understa...

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Travels into Print Exploration, Writing, and Publishing with John Murray, 1773-1859

Keighren Innes M., Withers Charles W. J., Bell Bill

ISBN: HB: 9780226429533, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 colour plates, 25 halftones, 1 table

In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain, books of travel and exploration were much more than simply the printed experiences of intrepid authors. They were works of both artistry and industry – products of the complex, and often contested, relat...

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Siena City of Secrets

Tylus Jane

ISBN: HB: 9780226207827, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 33 colour plates, 3 halftones, 3 maps

Jane Tylus's "Siena" is a compelling and intimate portrait of this most secretive of cities, often overlooked by travelers to Italy. Cultural history, intellectual memoir, travelogue, and guidebook, it takes the reader on a quest of discovery through...

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